2009/4/24 Jacopo Corbetta <jacopo.corbe...@gmail.com>:
>> An existing example of us providing users with such an option however
>> can be seen in the ability to turn various editing-related gadgets such
>> as wikiEd. I think this shows that should a more visual editing
>> interface become able to be deployed, we certainly would make it optional.
>
> Exactly. Each editor has its own incompatible setting which allows it
> to be turned on or off. Basically, each extension assumes it is going
> to be the one and only one editor for the wiki. If you install more
> than one, things will break. A unified preference might have been
> useful. Anyway, no big deal.

I don't believe any WYSIWYG (or close to) editor that exists for
MediaWiki is good enough that you can completely avoid editing the
wikitext directly (in order to do complicated stuff), that means you
can't use one and only one editor unless that editor is the default
wikitext editor.

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